Ford Celebrates Three Milestones In Auto History
Henry Ford marks three landmark moments with the Model T and the fifteen millionth Ford. The 1908 Model T debut transformed transportation and industry, while the fifteen millionth car celebration at Highland Park highlighted a future of mass, affordable motoring. Edsel Ford assists as the old horseless carriage is honored alongside cameras and press. The founder recalls the early joke that met the first car.
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Detroit
Edsel
Great
Highland Park
Deron
Henry Ford
Est Associates
America
Ford Motor Company
Ford
Leury Ford
Dearborn
Ff U
van Oas
Henry and
Lidsel Ford
Monument Honors Ninety-First Division Soldiers at Pont-a-Mousson
The Ninety-First Division composed of Texas and Oklahoma troops halted at Pont-a-Mousson during four years of bombardment. A simple monument erected by former residents of Foy-en-Eschey honors the dead and living who fought there. Veterans plan a battlefield tour overseas next September.
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Wey-En-Lay
France
Texas
Oklahoma
Foy-en-Ehiye
Deaul
Ninetieth Division
Legion
Belgian Visitors Claim University Converts Winter to Wine
Two Belgian visitors Brutaeve a bawyer and Georg Vingerhoets a steamship officer obtained permission from prohibition authorities to demonstrate in Columbia University laboratories a secret substance that allegedly turns water and sugar into wine with one percent alcohol in three days and seventy two percent in thirty days.
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New York
Columbia
Belgium
Brutaeve
Bawyer
Georg Vingerhoets
Archbishop Alexander Leads Greek Orthodox Ceremony
The article profiles Archbishop Alexander of New York as the head of a historic church with thousands of American communicants. It notes he is relatively little known nationwide and shows him in regalia conducting a ceremony in Logatera.
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United States
Alexander
New York
Heis
Vhoto
Texas U Students On Honor Roll Honors Spr ing Term
UT Austin School of Business Administration announces spring term honor roll with numerous students earning free A grades based on exceeding B averages. Recipients include Frank Cain Taylor Waxahachie and Hugh Jewett Austing among many others across Texas towns and colleges.
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Austin
Texas
School of Business Administration
University of Texas
J. A. Fitzgerald
Cain Taylor
Waxachie
George Lutessuman
Aubrey Fred Porter Hianull
Temple
Hugh Jewett
Austing
Judson K
MecNaney
Longview
Mary Dorothy Peel
San
Smithville
Leon Otho Lewis
Clarendon
Local Masons Install Officers at Laredo Lodge
Laredo Lodge No. 647 of the Masons held its annual installation of officers Monday night at the Masonic Hall. Jas. B. Roark served as Worshipful Master with Ernest Benlor as Senior Warden, Rogoerg as Junior Warden, Barrow as Senior Deacon, Die Nels lings as Secretary, Pollskinhorny as Treasurer, Rev. Cy W. Cook as Chaplain, Shall as Deacon, Lamar as Senior Steward, and Andersen as Junior Steward.
Yellowstone Park Superintendant Major Harris Dead
Major Moses Harris 88 first military superintendent of Yellowstone National Park is dead. He received the congressional medal of honor for bravery in battle in Shenandoah valley.
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Rochester
N.Y
Moses Harris
Yellowstone National Park
Shenandoah Valley
W. C. G. T U. veto on prescription permit shocks Moody honor
The W. CG. T U. voices disappointment after Governor Moody vetoes a prescription permit enforcement appropriation. Mrs. Claude De Var Watts, president, notes the move amid party tensions. A Pecos County land dispute rises as a wild well near Yates field may exceed 24,000 barrels daily.
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Austin
W. CG. T U
Moody
Claude de Var Watts
Sain Angelo
Yates
Pecos County
Ira Yates
Tenis
Professor to Lead Colloquium at Mathematical Society Meeting
Texas University professor Rohbert Le Moore invited to conduct a five-lecture colloquium on mathematical point set theory at the Summa Meeting of the American Aditho muitical Society in RoWlder, Cola.
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Axag
Oed
Rohbert le Moore
Rowlder
Cola
Texas Delegation Arrives in New York for Texas Tour
Governor Dan Moody leads a 1420 strong Texas goodwill delegation to New York station and hotel. The group rejects porters and carries their own baggage as they meet a reception committee. Moody says the trip aims to promote Texas and dispel misperceptions including the Ku Klux Klan controversy as a settled issue for two years.
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Ngw York
Une
Dan Moody
Texie
Lone Star State
Pennsylvania Station
New York
Moody
Texas
Kian
Yvonne Apartments Open to Tenants
Mir and Mrs Garry D Liansier will open their new Yvonne Apartments on North Mier Street for public inspection around July 3. The Spanish style adobe like building sits on a hill with deep foundations and concrete beneath all floors. There are eight apartments in the two story structure with varied room layouts and pastel interiors, fully furnished with linen and silver.
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Mir
Garry DL. Iansier
Yvonne
Mier Street
Scory
China Nationalists Heavily Punished in Kiangsu Province
A Shanghai dispatch reports the Chinese Nationalists suffered the heaviest reverse of the war at Suchoufu in Northwestern Kiangsu. Attacked by General Sun Chuanfang and Shantungese forces, Nationalists evacuated Suchoufu after four days of fighting, losing about 60,000 men, mostly killed, and retreated 20 miles to Pengfu.
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London
Shanghai
Taxchange
Suchonfu
Kiangsu
Sun Chuan- Fang
Pengfu
Davis and Slaughter Begin New Apt House on Heights
A four unit apartment building by Davis and Slaughter rises on the Rio Grande heights. The new Apt House A will overlook native trees and open for public inspection in about five weeks at a cost of 1000 dollars.
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Rio Grande River
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